The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

BONNE"i"S SILKS a LYON,—Every Article of comraell•ce takes its title either from the inventor or manufacturer. and the more perfect the pro d uc tion the grater is the crLdit which atta cne3 to the originator. BONNE C'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in En gland ; but the tallacy of such an assertion is ex pos dby Use very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end ofeach pica :—" Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., it 1.0 on et a Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THE:kTRE.— ;Sole Lesee and 51anager, Mr. Geo. Vining. On EASTER MONDAY. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. After wh. 4 ch, PAUL'S Ri,..TURN. To conclude with, first time, a new Farce, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled DRAWING -ROOM, SECOND FLOOR, AND AT IICS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. On EASTER MONDAY, the performance will commence w ith TILE DAY AFTER, THE FAIR : Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and /Liss E. Lavenu. "ner which, at Eight o'clock, the 117th Night of BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from t_4tendlial's "Italian Chronicle ." Principal character by Mr. Fechter. Messrs. Jordan, Charles, J. Broughmm, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Coilett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Airs. Lee, Slims Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is ,rade to the occupants of Boxes, Box-placea, or Stalls, either foz play bills or for the safe keeping of hat i and cloaks, and twat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-ofEce open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Nightly filled with Rank and Fashion.— rhe highly popu lar new Comedy of The Silver Lining every Evening until further notice.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stir lino., Mrs. Frank Matthews, &c. The following eminent artistes are enoaged to appearßenjamin Webster, Mr. sod Mr . Charles Mathews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. Howard Paul, Miss A. Cottrell, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth. &c. Every Evening, at 7, UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley: Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Patti Josephs Sher second appearance this season). At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER ELNIAG : and Mrs. t harles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, 31 , ss A. Cot trell, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague. At 10, Mr. Charles Mathews, juSt translated from the French, in his characteristic haracter of UnAnglais Timide, called COOL AS A CUCUMB ..R. On EASTER MONDAY, first time at this Theatre, the popul , r cas ica Extravaganza, by J. B. Planc'ne. of the GOLDEN FLEECE. Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, and Miss A. Cuttrel . Commence at 7. NT ENV Tl-1 E A ntE-Ro YAL, ADELPIII, .k_ l 4 ' 4 olo Prooriator an.l tii triaew, M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Rob , rt Landry, Mr. B. IVebs'er, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, Stuart, BO lin gtun, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Hiss Woolgar, and r iss K. Kelly, Sac. To c-nclude with T fIE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Too'c, P. Bedford, d. Hcmer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. OYAL STRAND THEATRE - 11) Manacrer, Mr. W. H. Swanborourzh. On EASTER MONDAY, a new Cornedietta, A HUNT FOR A HUSBAND. After which, the Grand Chri•Amas 13nriesque, 0 IZ,PHE AND EURYOICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c. Commence at 7. MHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ban be had Every Evening of G. It. GIANIE, NEWS AGE74fT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. CO:ILS.—The. LILLESHALL COMPANY S CO PLC. Direct from their own Collieries. ' Marquis'.......26s. per tan. Double ..21s. per ton. Top 255. „ Nuts. . . l9s. „ Deep 223. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf 4 ?addington, W. Best Coze Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. The Weather—Sun Office, March 23, 1364. THER.MOME IEII. This day at Two o'clock 47 Barometer-30.12. Wind—N E.; moderate breeze, and fine, HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 20m.—Afternoon, 2h. 33m. 1:3-moRaow.-Morning, 2h. 49 n.—Afternoon, 3d. 3m. AO, O y SUIT, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCII 23, 1864. A breathing time of a fortnight is now being enjoyed by the House of Commons under the title of the Easter recess, or holidays. Nearly two months of the current session have already elapsed. Nearly twice that number of months yet remain to the Legislature, in the ordinary course, for the transaction of public business, before the approach of the com mencement of grouse shooting gives the annual signal for the Prorogation. In the ordi nary course, we have said. But the question still remains to be answered, Whether that ordinary course, after all, is this year to be followed? Parties are so nicely balanced— angry feelings have been so intensely aroused between them, that is between the Government and the Opposition—that it has at length come to be re garded as exc:eedin i gly problematical whether, before this session has advanced much further, a Ministerill crisis may not just possibly arise. For ourselves we certainly cannot but look upon the proba bilities tending to the bringing about of such a crisis as very obvious and as exceedingly imminent. We will even add, suite frankly, that we cannot but regard such pro babilities with sentiments of almost supreme indif ference. As Reformevs, as Liberals, we have had our sympathieii very painfully alienated from the occupants of the Treasury bench now for some time pest—and that, moreover, month by month, year by year, increasingly. Nearly one whole lustre, as tho scholiasts have it, meaning simply just close upon five disappointing years, have flitted by, daring which, without any appreciable gain to the cause of national Liberalism—certainly without any Reform of a perceptible kind, good, bad, or indiffe rent, having been secured to the country through the intervention of this so-called liberal and reforming Government being in power—Lord PALMERSTON end his colleagues have occupied the Treasury Bench. Until we have come at last to realise a sense of weariness at their persistence, quite deliberately, and even quite openly, in a dogged do-nothing policy. A do-nothing policy at home— a blended meddling and muddling policy abroad. An obstructive, apathetic, indifferent no-policy here in the United Kingdom. And a foreign policy about equally compounded cf copious and for the Most part vexations, because at once fussy and yet wholly inoperative despatch writing, on the one side, and, on the other, of alternate intervention and no n - intervention. Non-intervention in the instances of America, of Poland, of Denmark—inter vention threatened at first in the instance of Mexico, and then inconsistently abandoned there even as a design—intervention (partially) in China, where. English officers have been meddling in the civil con tests between the Imperialists and Taepings—inter vention of every flagrant and even frightful character in Japan, as evidenced in the burning and Lem herding of that unhappy, far-away ci!v of K ;go- Edina. Sec's, in ff.et, heve been the injurious ten dencies of this meddling and muddling, of this fitiui no-policy, paltering turn with policy n every p r i nc iple, held most dear in the hearts of Englishmen, t h a t we don't wonder in Of least to find th e Government at leagti, begun to be looked upon askance even by their apologiste, whether within or without the walls Parliament. For ourselves, being in no way what ever partisans, we have come—out of our very re. gard to the cause so ostentatiously affected to b championed by the present Ministry at the date of its formation, a cause, however, since then, la) that Ministry, as it does certainly appra? to us, eystematically out sacrificed—we have, of this very disappointment of our -12 °P" , and th e julignati.)a thereby conseqVutiS that such has been the influence exercised by the simple recognition of all this upon the very apologists hitherto of the Government, that these apologists have at length had their enthusiasm abated, and their political alle giance alienated. Insomuch that the thorough going, reform-loving, Liberal Spectator has latterly begun to look for ward almost with complacency to the probable invigoration of the liberalism of the Whigs by their transformation for a while from a Cabinet into an Opposition. Insomuch that that most devotedly Palmerstonian:organ, the Saturday Review, has of late frankly acknowledged to have a hankering to witness the in fliction of some such well-merited penalty upon a hesitating and vacillating Government. We look to the coming contests, then, in the House of Com mons, after the Easter recess shall have passed by, with feelings, we repeat, of utter indifference—an indifference arising out of our total want of sym pathy with our Administrators. It is not we who have changed, it is they. They have ceased to further the interests of reform, or of rational liberalism, in any way whatever. They are, to all appearance, utterly bewildered as to any distinct policy on the Continent of Europe. Added to all this—it should at least be said and understood _quite plaibly, alike abroad and at home, that 'Englishmen as a body are not Mazzinians, are intensely and essentially the very reverse of Mszzinians. Among the many refuges that abound in these days, there has been a new one started, which ap pears to possess considerable claims to notice. The Home for Little Boys supplies a want that has long existed, and to remedy which many unavailing efforts have been made by well mean ing persons for some time. It may not be gene- rally known that there is not an institution in London which takes in boys under the age of ten years. This fact in itself proves the necessity that exists for something to be done. The Home for Little Boys is especially intended for the reception of this class of juvenile outcasts, who are shut out from institutions, end yet require to be carefully tended. Indeed, in some cases, it may be more necessary to employ care and caution at an early age, than when the habits are more formed, end tee ideas more fixed. A great deal more may be done with young children than with those who are more advanced in life, although they may still be of ten der years. After the age of ten the boy rapidly develops into the youth, and this more decidedly in a rank of life, and among a class which witnesses such precocity in evil, and such aptitude to learn mischief. Even the children of respectable parents in comparatively comfortable circumstances, very often astonish and distress the well wishers of the family by their determined bent in the wrong direction, and their obstinate and infatuated per eiatence in evil practices. It is quite impossible for those who have not studied the subject most atten tively, and made themselves familiar with the annals of the poor to comprehend the insidious means which aro laid for these little pilgrims on life's highway. At a time when the sons of those reared in effluence are hardly fit to understand their daily tasks, the children of want, the heirs of toil, are adepts in the mysteries, and most adroit in the manoeuvres of craft and cunning. To bring the subject home to the mind of the reader, it may be as well to state that during the year 1862 no fewer than " 311 under the age of ten years were apprehended by the metropo litan police for various offences, and 179 of this number were punished, while 232 were discharged without hope of rescue from the vortex of crime in which they seem to be hopelessly involved." This fact speaks volumes for the necessity that exists for the establishment of a refuge fur little outcasts of this tender age. Mr. HANEURY, the president of the institution, invited a party on Saturday to visit the Home. He pointed out that the purpose of its establishment was not to receive those who had committed crime, but those who were in imminent danger of falling into " criminal courses." Of course the name of this class is "Legion," and there esti exist no doubt in the mind of any one qualified to give an opinin, that however numerous such establishments may be, they will soon be filled to overflowing by the junior members of the overflow ing family of crime. In consequence of the ad dresses of several gentlemen, a large sum was sub scribed to the further support of this estimable undertaking. Nothing can be a greater mis cake than to send back little outcasts into the very jaws of destruction, as it were. They will inevitably fall into the condition of that man whcse second state was worse than his beginning, for the fascinations and allurements of evil are most insidious, and the unwary child will not be likely to exhibit sufficient force and determination to ex tricate himself from its dreadful vortex, or to quit its pernicious precincts. It must be acknowledged that the Home at Tottenham possesses every claim on our regard that social advantages and public moral attractions can combine to afford. There is no better way to serve a State than to check the progress of evil, and foster the growth of virtue in its youth. These ignorant, untutored, little ones will one day be the men who form the community of the nation, and as they now advance or recede in the way of right, so will the next generation be blessed or cursed in its experience. A better work can hardly be effected than to prevent the youth of a population from imbibing evil impressions, and by rendering vice unfamiliar to them in an indirect form, do great and good service to the cause of virtue. In the sight of man such an establishment is well qualified to command respect, and it must win the esteem and ensure the regard of all who have the welfare of s.ouiety at heart, and at all mea sure the depths and heights of that dark abyss into which these little wanderers must fall. This world cannot see the end of the dark waters, the fruits of the unholy labours whose origin is so often so simple and apparently so harmless. In the sight of GOD we may rest assured that this scheme is a holy one, and that the effst ts made in the cause of regeneration will be precious in His sight, who wills not that one of these little ones should perish. There are many who lament the state into which the ic' ices of indigence fall, but they are very k.t to forget that they , hemselves share a part of the heavy responsibility of their tall. No one whose position in society gives him power, whc63 wealth effords a means, or whose abilities impart an opportunity of rendering ,iervices to the cause of such institutions, and who cleglects to lend his hand to the good work, can be :Ailed guiltless, or lay claim to immunity from the ,tharge of indifference to the wants of those whose lelplessness should prove an unfailing claim on our attention. More cannot be said in favour of an undertaking than that it promises to promote the best interests of these little wanderers, that it seeks to train them to be honest 111Q12 and good . iCzens, instead of becanaing what the pure in heart vill shudder to name. To mrigste he effects of the evil, and palliate the prajudicia workings of " . a all that in this confused state of society we While the American war continues to rage with unabated force, it is natural that the public should watch with some anxiety the progress of events in Lancashire. Ecen should there be a sudden cessa tion of hostilities is the transatlantic States, we could not now hope for a large supply of cotton from that quarter; and the immense number directly and indirectly dependent upon the plen tiful receipt of the precious staple in this country raises the question above a mere matter of commer cial requirement into a subject of vital and national importance. Under these circumstances it is gra tifying to find the sanguine anticipation formed at the beginning of the year fully realised, and a steady decrease perceptible is the amount of pauperism. Of course the advancing season is of itself a powerful auxiliary; and although we must not be disheartened should a temporary increase of the numbers in receipt of relief indicate those fluc tuations in the trade of which the committee fore warned us long since, still all must acknowledge that the best season of the year is at band. Bitterly have the London poor felt the inclemency of the trying winter; and the increased demands which such a season makes neon the struggling wretches who can at the best of times only just keep their heads above water, have been painfully impressed upon us by the repeated deaths from starvation and distress. While feeling painfully the incon sistency of such deaths accruing in the midst of our elaborate and costly Poor Law system, how grateful should we be to the body of gentlemen who have stood forward in the breach of this great national calamity, and by the excellence, regularity, and order of their arrangements, and the unflagging zeal and energy with which they have devoted themselves to their self-imposed duties, have saved us from even hearing of one such case in a country which, under less vigilant care. might well have chronicled thousands. It is diffi cult to overrate the judgment, the wisdom, and the toleration shown in the dispensing of the relief, for in such cases there are always clashing wills and jarring opinions even amongst the most unanimous in feeling and intention. The associations which band themselves together for any great public end are too often hampered by private wishes end per sonal influence; too often individual likes and dis likes come into the scale, professional jealousies, rivalries, partialities, and antagonisms come in until the two great evils of cliquism and sectarienism neutralise a great deal of well meant but ill directed effort. Whether the result is due to the national character of the calamity or to the individual charac ter of the leading members of the Committee, the result in the case of the Lancashire Relief Fund has been altogether different. From the noble chair man downwards, every individual of the Central Executive Committee has appeared to be actuated by only one motive—the prompt relief of the dis tress in the wisest and most comprehensive form. Questions of detail may have been discussed and debated, minor matter; may have given rise to some difference of opinion, but the married success which has attended their efforts has undoubted!) been as much due to the high tone and disinteresteo unanimity of feeling which they have exhibited as to the practical excellence of their arrangements. At the very outset of their operations, a question arose which might have given rise to angry con tentions and jealousies. The existence of a separate fund, under the control of the Lord Mayor, was regarded by many with annoyance and opposition. It was doubted in what way air announcement of the continued existence of that fund would be received by the Executive Com mittee. But when the matter was brought forward the Earl of DERBY, in his place as chairman, only expressed his satisfaction at the extent of the ❑a tional contributions, and his conviction that both the subscribers and the dispensers of the relief could only be actuated by one feeling—the wish to mitigate, as far as possible, the sufferings of the people. At the meeting held on Monday, under the presidency of Lord EDWARD HOWARD, Mr. FARNALL remarked that during a recent visit to London he had conversed with men of all shades of opinion, and that one and all had declared the surprise and satisfaction with which they had seen the result of the committee's labours. Tht people, they said, had been borne through a great national calamity without disturbance or 10;n8 of rife, mainly owing to the judicious action of th. committee. Mr. FARNALL observed that it had been proposed to organise a committee in the metropolis on the model of the Lancashire Com mime, with the view of reaching the cases of destitution and nccessity beyond the limits of the poor law. But the northern association have had to contend with difficulties which would never present themselves with equal force to a metropoli tan society. They had to bear in mind the danger of permanently pauperising the population—of breaking down those barriers of self-respect and honest independencir which are the proudest boasts of English working men and women. They had to guard against the deception of practised im posters, at the same tine that they took care not to pass by those cases of silent suffering which needed help non© the less becaure they would not esk for it. The diminution now visible in the weekly returns rewards alike the liberality of the public, the labours of the committee, and the patient endurance of the people. Guard of Honour to General Garibaldi, excited, we have naturally, it might even be said inevitably, come to regard with a sort of ap4thy, with a wholly undisguised air of indifference the imperilment of the power so long held, to no good end whatever that we can recognise, by the mem bers of the present administration. We have said TPE SUN, LOT<DON, WEDNESDAY EVTNING, MARCH 23, 1864 can accomplish, but those who foil in the attempt may console themselves with the thought that they acted for the best, while those who succeed may surely rejoice to reflect that through their instru mentality these outcasts and wanderers have the cbance before them of leading a new life, and of sharing the promises of this world and of that which is to come. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] The Constiintion of 1845, introduced in 1857. The adoption of the Ministeri - 1 proposition would involve the abolition of a hereditary Senate, ANERICA. (Per the Bremen, via Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, MARCH 11 (Evening). General Sherman's return to Vicksburg is con firmed. He penetrated 35 miles beyond Meridien, destroying all railroads. He lost 500 men. The Times' second edition, however, says : "There is still no official intelligence from General Sherman, and, in order to allay the public disap pointment at the failure of his movement, very exaggerated reports of the destruction of railways and stores which he committed in Mississippi are published in the Ministerial p3pers.” No important military mcvemeuts have taken place. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold, 624 per cent. premium. Ilinois, 1361 ; Erie, 126 i. The Bremen passed Qieenstown at 3.30 e.m. She brings 9 passengers for Soutlaampton, 13 for Havre, and 85 for Bremen, and 1,7G0 doffs. in specie for Bremea. THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. (Front a Correspondent of the Times ) VIENNA, MARCH 23, 10.50 A.M. The Conference proposed by England, without detailed bases or armistice, has been accepted by Austria and Prussia. The territorial integrity of the Danish Monarchy under the present dynasty will be maintained. The Conference is to meet at once. D E NMARK. COPENHAGEN, MARCEI 22, 8.34 A.M. The King and the Minister of War left for the army to-day. No news of any importance has arrived from the seat of war. ST. DOMINGO. ST. DOMINGO, MARCH 2 (via Cadiz). The Spanish are preparing an expedition for Monteehriste. The pacification of the southern .part of th© island makes progress, but the pacification of Ciboa is beset with difficulties. DEPARTURE OF GARIBALDI FOR ENGLAND. TURIN, MARCH 22 (Evening), The Stampa of this evening says :---i , Yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, Gariba ldi and ei g ht other gentlemen, among whom were bo h a i r s d eons It E ic n : i t s t h i and Menotti, embarked on steamer Valetta. Her course is unknown, as it i s doubtful whether she will touc h at Malta or s t eer direct for Gibraltar. ... 41 Garibaldi's destination is b elieved to be Lo ndon, the object of his journey, as is supposed by so me persons, being to consult a cel ebrated En g lis h sur geon, while others imagine tha t he wishes to excite the public mind in England in favour of Italy," The Stamp; considers it hardly probable that an understanding should exist between Garibaldi and Niazzini, especially as the latter is reported to have returned to Lugano. GENOA, I‘lApcif 22 (Evening). An Englishman, Colonel Chambers, is one of the companions of Garibaki on his journey to England, THE PRIgCIP.ALITIES. BUCHAREST, MARCH 22. The Chambers have voted the 19; 11 on commercial their;relation4 with the landed.proprietors. organisation. The Government viii short l y submi t to the Chambers a bill emane patiog the peasants and esta blishing SPAIN• :11ADR:D, NIATtal 22 (Evening). The Madrid jouroas o f to-day state that it is calculated that the Milistry will obtain a majority of 100 rotes for their bi,ll to tibolibh the reforms of La France, under the headicg " Lord Palmerston and M. Mazzini," says as follows:—" A member of the House of Commons, a Minister of the Crown, Mr. Stansfeld, has been convicted in his place in Parliament of being the friend and correspondent of Mazzini ; he himself has made a complete avowal, a motion directed against him, and which would have been equivalent to a judicial condemnation, was negatived only by an insignificant majority. lie has emerged from the debate acquitted, but not justified, and all the world, after such a scandal, expected that he would resign his official position to preserve the Government as well as the dignity of the house. Nevertheless, Mr. Stansfeld remains in office, and Lord Palmerston, in reply to a ques tion on the subject, boldly declared that his ho nourable friend Mr. Stansfeld' had tendered his resignation, that he had refused it, and assumed the whole responsibility of a decision which looks like a defiance of the feeling of the country and the house. Such is the incident which engaged the House of Commons on the 18th, and which the British press is just now ringing with. It is not our business to appreciate the unaccountable atti tude of Lord Palmerston in this business; we are content to record the impression it has pro duced in the House of Commons. Never were the surprise and indignation of a great assembly expressed in more forcible terms. Some of the most prominent members of the House of Com mons, Lord Etch°, Mr. Buncombe, Mr. Heti burton, Alderman Rem, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Fitz gerald, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Ferguson (sic), strenu ously protested against the presence in the ministry of a man who glories in the friendship of Mazzini. Lord Palmerston, who, after the previous day's vote, fancied the matter was at an end, and did not anticipate the next day's storm, remained silent, We will not inquire what can have induced him to shield with his responsibility the conduct of his hon. friend,' who is also Mazzioi's ; but what is certain is that this incident has assumed such, proportions as will render the noble lord's position in Parliament very trying. A man cannot with impunity defy the opinion of his country, and the conscience of Europs. The declaration of Lord Palmerston is not only impolitic—it is also a grave infringement of the generous instincts of a nation which may have granted a refuge to foreign con spirators, but which hes ever protested against the doctrine of assassination. As for us, we take duo note of the noble speeches delivered in the House of Commons ; we see in them the real expression of the feelings of England, and we deplore that a diffe rence of such a description should have arisen be tween the people of England and the Goveenment of her Britannic Majesty." The Presse says :—" The result of the division on Thursday is mast serious as regards the existence of the Ministry. A majority of ten on such an occasion constitutes a moral check, and no doubt can be'entertained that these impassioned debates have weakened and shaken the Administration." The Temps thinks that the Government will use its utmost efforts to achieve a diplomatic coup de theatre during the recess, and, if they should not succeed, has no doubt that on this day week the curtain will rise far the first act of "a Mielaterial critds." BoURsE, March 22.—The market still continues heavy, Threes, for the Account, which opened at 66f% 5c., are now at 65t. 95c. Mobilier, after having been done at 1,050 f., he.ve receded to 1,042 f. 50c. Railway Market quiet, but prices in general pretty well maintained. The market remained dull to the close, and left off as follows : 4t per Cents. 93 10 Do, end month per Cents Do. end month 65 9',1 Credit llobilie' 1015 no. end month — Bank Shares 3295 crt.dit Eonrier 1275 Roman Italian Loan 67 70 Do. end month 67 75 New ditto .. 67 50 Do, end month.... Russian Austrian Spaniel Threw — Kerne Debt Deferred VAlikl. RA 11, Orleann . '.7ort hern • • • . Cash. Account. 1000 25 .. 1605 — 952 50 .. 960 New ditto .. Lyons and Medit , aranean 936 25 936 25 New ditto BB5 SJuthern Western Eastern Sardinian .. 371 25 371 25 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 6Bl 25 .. 58U Ditto to Barcelona TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Son,—Permit me to contradict the statement made in the (bserver of the 20th March, that the 3d City of London R fie Volunteers would form a guard of honour to General Garibaldi on his arrival in England. The paragraph is perfectly unauthorised and without the slightest founda tion.-1 am, sir, your obedient servant, W. G. FURNIVALL, Captain and Adjutant, 3d City of London Volunteers. Headquarters, 79, Farritigaon-street, Al arch 22. DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT AT DUDDESTON HALL, BIRMINGHAM —Oa Thursd.y evening, the physician of the Duddeston Hall Lunatic Asylum (Dr. Boisragon), gave a dramatic entertainment, at which the ins tne inmates and a number of the doctor's friends were present. The entertainment consisted of a charade, and a farce, the latter written by Mrs. Conrad Boisragon, with so much ability that when writing it the authoress must have tilt:te lle. more of the few friends who were to be pre• sent than the insane inmates of tha asylu'a. It was cer tainly too good for people insensible to literary merit. The dialogue was smart, sometimes even epigramatic—while for puns, it was almost as full of them as any of Mr. H. J, Byron's adaptations. The host and hostess, assisted by the doctor's brother, Mr. Boisragon, took parts in the farce. The entertainment lasted about an hour, affording much pleasure to every one present. At its conclusion the hostess was called before the curtain in the double cha racter of authoress and actress, and received a hearty round of applause.—Birmingl,ant Daily Ciazette. DR. JACOB. By the Author of " Joan and I." Three Vols.—" There is much freshness and originality of conception about this book. As a work of imagination ' Dr. Jacob' may well rank many degrees above the ordi nary fictions of the day. Fraulei❑ Fink, with her school and her literary tattle, the chaplain and his family, the grave professors, and the thousand and ono little touches which make up the picture of every-day, easy, genial life in Germany, have much of the picturesque force and vi rid reality of ,R°.6'sa•;', An amendment to the Gold Bill has been passed in the Senate, authorising Secretary Caste ro sell the surplus gold in the treasury. The amendment will have to pass the Muse of Representatives before becoming law. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. A decline has taken place in gold in consequence of the Congressional legislation, and is now quoted 62 per cent. premium. Exchange on London— Bankers' Bills, 178; on Paris, 3.121 ; Stocks, steady ; New York Centrals, 137 ; Llinois, 136 ; Erie,l24 ; 6 par oent. Cuited States Bonds, 112 ; cottou, depressed ; Middling Upland, 783. Flour and corn in good inquiry. Wheat dull. Provisions and coffee very firm. Sugar and molasses steady. Petroleum dull. Crude, 29c. to 30c. ; refined, 480. to 49c. NEW YORK, MltRcH 12 (Morning). The bombardment of Fort Po veil, Mobile, was continued on the 2oth ult. An impression prevailed that Farragut's fleet was not sufficiently numerous to make an effective demonstration against Mobile, he defences having been found very strong. Suffolk, in Virginia, has been occupied by Butler's forces. The Confederates continue to make demonstra. ions against Suff.)lk and Portsmouth, and have drivel. in the Federal cavalry and two coloured regiments. The Richmond Press is strongly incensed at in structions found upon D tlolgren, directing Kil patrick's men to sack Richmond and kill President I) ivis. The Press urges that th© severest treatment should be exercised towards the prisoners of Kil patrick's command. The _Northern Press declare that the orders said to have been found upon D inlgren were forgeries. There is a doubtful report from North Carolina that 23 North Caroiniana, captured from the Federal army, were hung by the Confederate General Pickett. President Lincoln has presented General Gr'ut with the commission of Lieutenant-General in the presence of the whole Cabinet. Grant, after visiting the army of the Potomac, returned with Meade to Washington, and left im mediately for the West. The New York World asserts that Grant has announced the concentration of forces for the cap ture of Richmond. In Congress, Senator Pomeroy has advocated the claims of Secretary Chase fur Presidential nomina tion, stating his platform to be emancipation, confiscation, and the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine. Secretary Chase has written a letter urging that his name should not be considered in connection with the Presidency. Fremont's friends are more active in advocating his claims for the Presidency. The Judge of the Court of Appeal at St. John's has delivered judgment, releasing the . Chesapeake pirates. The steamer Donegal has arrived at Havanna with 1,000 bales of cotton. FRANCE. The Pope and Cardinal de Bonald. The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow ing : " The Monileur of the 28th of February last announced that the Ambassador of France at Rome had expressed to Cirdinal Antonelli his painful astonishment on th i p occasion of a letter being addressed by his Eminence Cardinal de Bonald to the clergy of Lyons, giving an account of an audience which his Holiness had given to the car dinal. " the Moniteur added that Mgr. Antonelli, after having received the orders of the Holy Father upon the matter, had declared that his Holiness, in the terms reported textually by the Moniteur of the 28th of February, had energetically blamed the letter of Cardinal de Bonald, and charged the Sec retary of State to express his displeasure to him therewith; that, in fine, Cardinal Antonelli took measures to fulfil immediately the orders of the Holy Father. " Mgr. de Bonald thought it his duty to address from [tome, under date of the 11th of this month, to the clergy of his diocese, a letter which has been printed and distributed in France, and in which he declares that the Moniteur has been imposed upon by false intelligence; that the Sovereign Pontiff had said nothing to him respecting his circular; that his Secretary of State had said clothing to him about it . . .; tint he had only known of the displeasure of the Pope from the Moniteur. " The information from which the article in the Monzteur has been drawn up 'Pi as official. It establishes the fact that at the date of the 23d February last M. de Sartiges received from Cardinal Antonelli the explanations which were literally reproduced by the Moniteur of the 28th. Fresh information, also official, states tlak t if from causes that we have not appre ciated, the communication from Cardinal Antonelli to Mgr. de Bonald was delayed, the Secretary of State affirmed nevertheless, 'that he had, on the 9th of March inst., caused to be transmitted to Mgr. de Lyon, the expression of the blame of his Holi ness for his indiscreet publication; that he had charged Mgr. Bernardi, his Under Secretary of State, to perform that commission ; that the latter had sent for M. de Serre, grand vicar, and nephew of the cardinal, and had requested him to transmit to Mgr. de Bonald the expressions of blame which the Holy Father had made use of on the subject to his Secretary of State.' In fine Mgr. Bernardi himself confirmed this information. " This simple expose will suffice to make the truth fully known." A GREAT COMET is predicted by Professor New. wager. He tells us that in 1865 a comet shall come so close as to endanger this our earth, and, should it not attach itself to us (as one globule of quicksilver to another), nor annihilate us, the sight will be most beautiful to behold. During three nights we shall have no darkness, but be bathed in the brilliant light of the blazing train I The professor was leaving Australia for Bavaria when he made this prediction, so that we may hear more of this on his reaching Europe. VANCOUVER S ISLAND AND BRITISH COLUMBIA. —The imports into the port of Victoria in the year 1863 amounted in value to 3,888,812 dols., an increase of 333,335 dols. over 1862. The direct imports from Great Britain rose from 691,278 del% to 1,432,521 do's.. while those from San Francisco fell from 2,315,066 dols. to 1,880,117 dole. ; these colonies are thus in course of becoming less de pendent upon American supplies of provisions. If nothing be deducted for re-exports, and the imports be apportioned among the white population only, it would appear that every m an, woman, and child in these two colonies, on an average. consumed imported merchandise and produce in the year to the value of more than 300 dols. The export of gold in 1863 is stated at 2,935,170 dols., an increase of 767,986 dole. over 1862, and bringing the total shipments of six years 1858.63 up to 10,200,184 dols, The contest between Mr. Kingsley and Dr. New man is becoming exciting. It is safe to be very memorable. The rev. and fashionable novelist, in his Reply to that wonderful little pamphlet, pub lished a few weeks since by the Messrs. Longtnan, begins his answer here, as will be seen, with these words—" Dr. Newman has made a great mistake." I❑ writing the Reply so commenced, i❑ writing any reply at all, we believe, however, that it will become more and more apparent, as time advances, that Mr. Kingsley has made a far greater mistake himself. As a logician, as a master of style, as a rhetorician deal login iroey—he is no match whatever—we feel this' at every page, as we turn the leaves wistfully— he is no match whatever when opposed to that subtle and profound intellect which is among the marvels of our age. All Mc. Kingsley's pamphlet put together is as nothing, when weighed in the bal ance with those last two pages of the little pamphlet to which it affects to be a reply—panes that elicited (and no wonder) such earnest panegyrics both from the Spictator and the Saturday _Review, pages that we ourselves have read so often since they were printed, reading them, as we have done, again and yet again, out of the sheer delight awakened by the sense of their inimitable excellence of style, that we have got to know them almost by heart. " What, then does Dr. Newman mean P" asks Mr. Kingsley. In eager expectation we await Dr. Newman's answer to that pertinent query. Mr. Kingsley "pauses for a reply"—to his reply. And he is safe to have it. The impression produced upon our mind by a care till perusal of the pamphlet before us, is in its way something akin to that with which wo might con template the gifted harum-scarum head boy of his school, scrawling up a caricature of some learned and venerable pedagogue, scrawling it up with touches of fun and freaks of sarcasm on the back of the school-room door, while the said peda gogue (with a bone in his wrist) approaches the while, " unbeknown " to him, holding in his formidable grasp a swinging ferula, one that has been long kept tenderly treasured up in the very briniest pickle! As we turn from glancing at the chatk-marks on the schoolroom door, we listen for the sound of the first "thud," or "swish," from that terrible instrument of torture, now fairly and firmly back, once more, as of old, in the clutch of that pitiless• Master, at once of Style and of Argument. The Chess Congress of 1862. Rifted by I. at wen that. One Vol. pp. 536. 11. G. Bohn. For ehessplayers the new volume of Bohn's Scientific Library will prove a perfect treasury of information and amusement. It may be described as the joint production—production we say advis. edly, for it is far more than any mere cut-and-dry compilation, of Mr. Medley and Herr Lo senthal. The former of these two gentlemen being the Ho norary Secretary of the Congress referred to, and the latter, Herr Lowenthal being at once its Mana ger and Foreign Correspondent. Upon the Manager has bee❑ devolved, wisely enough, the responsible duty of editing the bulk of the work before us— being in effect A Collection of the G Ames Played by the Competitors in the Congress of 1862 as well as Selection of the Problems sent in, there and then, for Competition.. To the Honorary Secretary of the Congress has no less judiciously been entrusted by way of introduction to this Collection of Games and Selection of Problems "An Account of the Pro ceedings at the Congress of 1862" and " A Memoir of the British Chess Association." It will be re membered of course that it was under the manage ment of the British Chess Association that the Congress was held two years ago. And it will be long borne is mind that the Congress itself was especially noticeable among Congresses of this kind ny reason of the extraordinary length of its public sittings, by reason of the splendour and diversity of some among the more remarkable garnet, played during those sittings, and above all, by reason of the fact that before the breaking up of the Congress a new code of laws hed been formally enacted by common agreement among the numerous distinguished players therein assembled together from all parts of the globe. It was but right and reasonable therefore that a Cengress in their severel ways, so especially remarkable in its character and results, should have some record in its pro eeedings, and that that record should be one of no ephemeral description. A record worthy of it, worthy of perpetuating a remembrance of its proceedings, worthy of opening out through its agency a new epoch in the history of Chess, has, in point of fact, been here produced in this volume by the Manager and the Honorary Secretary of the Congress—that is, by Mr. G. W. Medley and Herr J. J. Lo senthal. '['he latter, we observe, as responsible editor of the volume, offers his grateful acknowledgments to eight illus trated players, to wit, Boden, Heydebrand, Jaeniscb, Lenge, Lewis, Prod, Staunton, and Walker for the assistance they have afforded in the labour of accurate compilation, evidently with him a labour of love throughout. Among the marvels of the Chess Congress of 1862, there will be found at about the middle of th:s goodly volume all due mention made of the arduous task undertaken by Mr. Paulsen in playing ten (even) games, blind fold and simultaneously, against ten distinct opponents. Everything connected with the Cone gress has been deliberately recorded in this volume. Nothing of the smallest importance seems to have been overlooked. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. By %V tn. Thos. Lowndes. New Edition. Re vised, Corrected, aed Enlarged by Henry G. Bohn. Part X. Pp. 2747-3027. H. G. Bohn. With the publication of this tenth instalment of his huge and laborious undertaking, Mr. Bohn com pletes his really noble as well as useful biblio graphical enterprise. From what he himself calve the " nucleus furnished by L iwndes," he has deve lcped into a splendid and comprehensive work, for the ankh all future English Scholars will have rectum to be grateful. It is a work, it should now be borne especial y in mind, now that the tenth and conc'uding instalment of it has actually made its appearance—it is a manual of English Literature containing within it an account, succinct, sometimes even elaborate, of all rare, curious, or useful books either published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the date of the invention of Printing downwards: tege tber with bibliographical and critical notices, as well as collations of the rarer articles and due records, wherever obtainable, of the prices at which these articles had been respectively sold during this present century. All this in truth was undertaken to be compiled, collated, and catalogued in the original work of Lowndes—but done in that work, as those acquainted with it know only too well, very partially, supetficie ally and unsatisfactory. As the work has here been revised, corrected, and enlarged, evidently in most instat.ces with scrupulous care, by Mr. Bohn, it has expanded from a mere germ as it were into a ripened whole. And that whole not merely a fruit, not even, we would 83 y, a tree of fruit, but a whole orchard filled with it in mellow abundance. The learned editor of the work, as it now is, may well direct attention, in evidence of the care applied by him to the toil of compilation, collation, revision, and en largement, to the rewritten or expanded articles in thisl Otha and anal Part of the Manual, upon Virgil, Voltaire, Walton, Warburton, Whately, Whewell, Wit, Witchcraft, and Zenophon. Now, that the body of the work is finished, we are glad to observe the intimatio a given by Mr. Bohn, in his Preface, that with a view of course to the facilitation of re ference, a very useful Appendix is immediately forthcoming. Croquet. By John Seques. Pp. 31. Longman and Co. Captain Mayne Reid, by his capital little hand book, published some time back by Mr. Skeet, has given the signal to other authorities upon the new game of Croquet to descant upon it in like manner. Besides another guide to the rules of the game LUTTRELL OF ARRAN, by Charles Lever, part 4, opens with a very clever chapter, describing the inferiority between the old Irish patriot or rebel, and the matter-of-fact and self-aufficientEnglialiman who has suddenly acquired importance by his wealth, and therefore arrogates ell the rights of position. The Irishman is to many for his antagonist, and by a few home thrists drives him off the field in high dudgeon. The characters in this chapter are well pourtrayed. It is in fact the best of the num ber. The pot of the story advances but little, although Luttrell is brought into crntact with the American whom we have previously mentioned, and who, as we predicted, will evidently take a prominent place among the dramatis persona in the sequel. The passages which relate to the ob stivacy and pride of Luttrell, and his remorse at the possible consucinences, are defined with much truth to nature; and although certain passages in the story may seem unreal to the English reader, a brief visit to the western shores of Ireland would prob ably reveal facts stranger than any fiction. THE GALLERY OF GEOGRAPHY, published by the Mcssrs. Chambers, has this month reached its sixth Part---pan instalment embellished with a very bean illul map of the southern or antipodean continent of Australasia. Before the close or this sixth instal ment of the Gallery, the reader finds himself well advancing in the Rev. l'hornas Milner's description of the empire of France. CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL has, in its Fourth and and greatly improved Series, reached its third part with the close of the month of March. In it the serial story, which is still the chief attraction among the contents, Lost Sir Massingberd," has extended from the twentieth to the twenty seventh chapter, each inclusive. Perhaps the plea santest reading in the whole number, among the miscellaneous contributions, is the very paper lead ing it off—being a gossiping chapter of recollectioUfil anent " Mine inns." POLYGRAPHIC HALL. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAINMENT. Welcome, thrice welcome back to London, genial, joyous, good-humoured Mr. Woodin, and certain are we, that every one present last evening at the first representation of the new entertainment, will cordially join with us in our congratulations. After an absence of more than ordinary duration Mr. Woodin has returned home, bringing with him an entertainment of the most extraordinary descrip tion. It is divided into four parts, the first of which, entitled en " Elopement Extraordinary ; or, Hurry and Flurry," is from the pen of Mr. Oxenford, and the remaining three, by Mr. T. W. Robertson, consist of a descriptive, humorous, musical, scenic, mimetic, characteristic, barometri• cal, thermometrical, and domestic-comical sketch, entitled a" A Bachelor's Boa." After a few intro ductory sentences from the clever entertainer, the curtain rises and discloses to the audience a railway train, consisting of first, second, and third-class careiages,about tostart from Tilbury for Fencnurch street. Tau first traveller that makes his appear ,:nca is a negro rne,4odist, one Peter White, who, in • order to amuse the public until the time of starting, obliges them with a soug,of course with banjo accom paniment—this profitable customer who has cunt rived to get down to Gravesend for half price, is now re turning to London with the half of some other per son's excursion ticket. As soon as he has taken his seat in the third-class carriage, he is followed by Miss Araminta Hotdfast, a strong-minded young tudy, who has popped her own question, and is now waiting for an ardent youth who has consented to run away with her, The weak-headed young spark arrives, and having taken their seats in the first-class carriage, the pursuing uncle next appears, and is followed by a number of other cieverly sustained characters, viz., a railway porter, a newspaper boy, a ticket collector, &c., &e. The plot, of course, concludes with the forgiveness of the runs ways by tue uncle, and this situation is Jleverly worked out in a most ingenious scene, which represents the interior of a first-class car riage, in which Mr. Woodin sustains no less than four characters, apparently at the same time, and. with the most astonishing effect. The lady and the two gentlemen appear to be sitting comfortably in their seats, whilst the head of the ticket-collector is continually popping in and out the window, inquiring very politely about some mistake respect ing the tickets. The situation was very successfully worked out, and at its conclusion the audience gave vent to their admiration by the most enthusiastic applause. • After a short interval the curtain again ascended on the " Bachelor's Box," a little suburban snuggery of an old gentleman with horticultural tastes. The fun of this portion of the entertain ment is occasioned through the many disagreeables poor old Mr. Pappington is subjected to in his en deavours to escape a noise. The old gentleman to please his niece is about to give a party, and no sooner is the audience made acquainted with the circum stance than we have a perfect cloud of visitors. There is, for instance, the policeman looking out for dearest Jane with the cold beef and warm spirits, Miss Pamela Pappington ; the nextra boy to clean the knives, the chance waiter, the shoeblack, the lamp lighter, the sweep, le Commandant Girofleur Miss Euphemia Pappington, Mr. Fulke 11Jilium Mr. Gonoph, the Mac Tartan of Glensnuffbogie, Honest Joe Higgins the milkman, and Mr. and Mrs. Bowser, c., all represented with the rapidity of tigntning by Mr. Woodin. The characters are not merely head and shoulder portraits, but nearly all tell length illustrations, and of the most aifficult description. For instance, one moment we have Pappington in her ball dress, Mac- Tartan in his Highland kilt, the French Commandant in his splendid regimentals, the shoeblack it, his, and, fleetly, the sweep in his soot. Nothing certainly could be more miscellaneous than such a collection, and the great wonder is how Mr. Woodin is enabled to effect such rapid and complete changes in face, costume, and figure. Several excellent songs are scattered through the entertainment, and, as if to fill the measure to o v e rflowing, Mr. Woodin throws in a Highland fling, which he dances with remarkable vigour and bptrit. From first to last the entertainment was a series of tillccesets, and we feel a pleasure in recording the fact, because Mr. Woodin is one of the most un tiring and deservedly-popular entertainers of the public. Tile hall, which has been beautifully re-decorated, was crowded in every part—indeed, long before the commencement of the entertainment, standing room► was at a premium. MR. DISRAELI'S STARTLING RETORT— on Mr. Stanafeld's interruption.--Mr. Disraeli (says the Court Journal) shone out triumphantly when Mr. Stasis. Feld was so imprudent as to interrupt him, and to ask " what correspondents" had addressed Mazzini at Thurloe square. "You know them better than I do, I suppose," retorted Mr. Disraeli, turning round sharply upon the un fortunate Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and looking hid through and through. Mr. Disraeli is a great actor.--at least, he remembers the Demosthenic advice to orators, that "action, action, action" is the one thing needful to orators. When his lace is in repose you would hardly believe that it was capable of such varying expressions, and that that rather demure and dejecred countenance would light up 86 the soldier's face lights up in battle. As poor Mr. Stens feld jerked himself forward and spoke the two fatal wortlo —anly two—the veteran parliamentary warrior saw bta triumph, and dealt his strokes again and again. " ' What correspondents!" says the hon. member for Halifax. Wb l the assasins of Europe. ' What correspondents ?' WbY the advocates of anarchy throughout the Continent.' Wb at cATespondents? Way the men who point their poignard s at the bre.tiA of our ally." The effect was of that wagnetic kind which spontaneous eloquence, driven home then a nd there, alone can produce, and Mr. Stansfeld will not soon interrupt Mr, Disraeli again, LITERATURE, What then Does Dr. Newman Mean ? A Reply. By the ROY. Charles Kingsley. Pp, 48. Mae- millan and Co. which we presume is being published by the Messrs. Routledge, here is this charming little manual issued from the great publishing house in the Row. A sixpenny manual, fully and admi rably iilustrated with woodcuts, with diagrams and engravings, and these embellishments scattered through a letter-press description of the laws and regulations of the game, ut once as brief, and yet as complete as any one could reasonably wish. Mr. Jacques evidently understands his subject thoroughly, and so writes upon it, therefore, that we read him at once with pleasure and reliance,